"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

would have loved to see the shrine OR hollywood bowl show (hi ned!). mind you, i got super-lucky with middle floors close to the stage for the toronto show, which was awesome. are they doing approx 3-hour sets for every show? as others have said, his voice sounded amazing - i was shocked how it really didn't seem to have changed at all.

Toronto Main set: Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, The Walk, End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hot Hot Hot, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm in Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, The Only One, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: Play For Today, A Forest.

robert's one and only 'stage trick' during the show - spitting in the air and catching it in his mouth. yuck.

The Cure - Faith - The Shrine Los Angeles, CA 6/1/08

i would kill for that Shrine setlist though, that is gonna be the stuff of legend on this tour.

Yeah, that's all pretty sharp. I won't complain, I got a great show in a great setting.

One more clip:

The Cure @ The Shrine - Bloodflowers (clip)

as others have said, his voice sounded amazing - i was shocked how it really didn't seem to have changed at all.

Sign of that -- his legendary held note on the live version of "Prayers for Rain"? PERFECTLY held on Saturday night, for the same length of time.

Also, I should say without hesitation that "Baby Rag Dog Book," which they ended the main set with at the Bowl, is THE new aggro monster rampage death track from the band. Astoundingly great.

...what was the OLD aggro monster rampage death track??

"Dressing Up"

"Catch"

(Actual potential answers depending on era: "Doubt", "One Hundred Years", "Give Me It", "Shiver and Shake", "Disintegration", "Cut", "Lost", "Us or Them")

You forgot "Trap" and "Watching Me Fall".

"Watching Me Fall" has the guitar squalls but is more self-loathing than rageful. You're right about "Trap" although it also might maybe be too soft...?

"Disintegration" is pretty self-loathing too. In fact, I always thougth "Watching Me Fall" was kind of a sequell or a re-write of "Disintegration" which itself was a re-write of "One Hundred Years". Each one slower and more self-loathing than the one before it.

had to miss this tour since it was all the way in san jose, but hope they come back soon after the album comes out

LRLR, you're right, but somehow "Watching Me Fall" doesn't fully hit the aggro button for me (probably because it is slower, as you mention).

And you're right that "Trap" is a bit soft, but lyrically the first time I heard it I thought "Ah, this is the "angry track" of the album". It reminds me a lot of "Cut".

just watched the entire Trilogy DVD this afternoon, A+++++

LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME, YOU NAIL ME TO THE FLOOR AND PUSH MY GUTS ALL INSIDE OUT

Crossed my mind as well, before "Shiver and Shake"! Ditto "Shake Dog Shake".

Having just relistened to "Baby Rag Dog Book" just now -- it's amazing what you can find out there -- and given the comparative songs above, I would place this one in a "Doubt"/"Shiver and Shake"/"Cut" vein -- Simon's bass starts and carries this whole thing, it's this high-speed grinddown that halfway to an unmelodic Joey Beltram riff and is similarly momentous. And unsurprisingly the recording just can't compete with the pin-against-the-wall feeling of hearing it live.

I'm hoping that is the case; I haven't really caught onto the recordings I've heard.

so it looks like Phoenix got to hear "Want," "The Big Hand" and "The Figurehead" last night -- all songs played the first time on this USA tour... *jealous*

I'll be at the next three: Dallas, Austin, Houston. will report back :)

(I would kill for any of those three in Texas)

Dallas was pretty good last night but I have a feeling it'll get better in Austin and Houston.

New song highlight was "Underneath the Stars," just a breathtaking opener. Lowlight has to be "Freakshow," didn't stand up to the other songs in the pop encore, sandwiched between "Close to Me" and "Let's Go to Bed," tough shoes to fill though.

Other highlights: "Prayers for Rain," "Fascination Street," "Push," "Friday I'm in Love" (it was a Friday night), "Primary" straight into "Shake Dog Shake," "One Hundred Years" and pretty much the entire Three Imaginary Boys encore (aka, 7 songs from that album in a row).

Lowlight from the back catalog: "The Baby Screams," some awful rocked-out version that followed "Wrong Number" and tried to sound exactly like it. Didn't work out.

Overall show grade: A-

Side note: They soundchecked last night with "The Holy Hour," "The Drowning Man" and "Faith" (among others) so hoping those are being practiced/perfected for Austin or Houston...

Bah, "Freakshow" is great, you. SO THERE. And yes, "Underneath the Stars" makes for a wonderful opener -- they'd be fools not to have that start the album.

HELLO
THERE IS NOTHING NEW TO REPORT
WE ARE ON TOUR
HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING THE SHOWS

SO THERE
ROBERT SMITH

HELLO ROBERT WHAT IS IT MAED

Ned -

The Cure - Underneath The Stars - Dallas 06.06.08

xoxoxo

Woah, that's some heavy goth, man.

Wait..wait...are you telling me this is a new song for them?

yuuuuup

I know...I mean I found the..whatever that list was of the new songs. And I'm so sorry I ignored this thread. I'm so fucking sorry. Oh my god. Please forgive me.

When does the album come out? Is it? When?

September

2009

Hly mthr of gd

Ah! I see you kid, Dan Perry. Surely a new Cure album is due before 2009!

Whoops I got myself confused entirely. Dan Perry has not posted on this thread lately. Crikey.

Please continue as normal. I shall be banished to the stale world of predictable classic rock radio for exactly 34 minutes as punishment.

hahah what'd you hear Bimble?

Oh I was just joking. I didn't actually punish myself like that!

Austin show tonight, the only 100% General Admission show of the tour (as far as i know)...

If you don't get up there and stage-dive and hug Robert and all that you're not a real fan. (I am the fakest fan ever.)

All hail "Fat Bob"! :)

Just got back from the Austin show, wowee! Great show. They played forever and ever!

Can't remember the main set list very well (they did all the singles from Disintegration, and from Pornography we got The Figurehead, 100 Years, The Hanging Garden and Strange Day) but the encores were classic:

1st encore: At Night, M, Play for Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Grinding Halt, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Fire in Cairo, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing an Arab

Made me wanna rush to the next town and see 'em again, they sounded so good!

Made me wanna rush to the next town and see 'em again, they sounded so good!

Yeah this was a great show. I'm going to Houston tomorrow, you oughta too!

We got a seriously great setlist in Austin tonight, lots of stuff that either hadn't been played before at all on the tour (Torture, The Hanging Garden) or had only been played 2-3 times (The Figurehead, A Strange Day, Catch, Signal to Noise, The Big Hand, Doing the Unstuck), plus the Seventeen Seconds encore -- all pretty lucky I'd say.

More discussion of Austin in the morning though, I'm tired.

Urgh. I wanna bang my head against a wall for missing this tour. Fantastic setlist. i can't believe they'd play "Torture". I don't really care for this song but it seems so random.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUYS GOT THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

woulda gone down to see the houston show tonight but i had work... sounds like they got a nice set with plenty of stuff from head on the door, i would have liked that.

last time i actually saw them play was 1989! bob's voice is still great, and the sound was just excellent. looked like they were having fun, too. i forgot how goofy robert smith was!

only real downside is that the austin music hall couldn't deal with the crowd on a day where the temp hit the upper 90s... the A/C couldn't cope and it was stifling in the thick of the crowd. made people cranky, just near us there a couple of fights! security didn't give a shit at all.

a couple years later, what's the fan consensus on "The End of the World"? 'cause i still think it's awesome and catchy and nice to listen to when i'm sorta sad (a companion to "Boys Don't Cry," i guess)